Take a Dog Tag Through New Orleans' National WWII Museum
Register a dog tag in the train car, walk the Pacific and European galleries, and finish under six restored warbirds.
This is general admission to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans' Warehouse District, and the pace is yours. The museum's own route starts in the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion with the Train Car Experience, where you pick up a dog tag. Register it on board or at the kiosk after you exit, and it follows one World War II servicemember's story at kiosks across the campus and online after you leave. Visitors in 2025 and 2026 single that card out by name, and it gives two city blocks of exhibits one person to follow.
One booking covers up to nine travelers, each with a dated, timed ticket on a phone or on paper. Child prices run from age 5 to 21 and senior prices from 65, and the museum lets children under five in free.
The National WWII Museum Admission Ticket New OrleansGeneral admission, dated and timed, explored at your own pace. Food and the 4D film cost extra.www.viator.comRoad to Tokyo Upstairs, Road to Berlin Below
The listing calls Campaigns of Courage the heart of the museum, and the museum gives it 19 immersive galleries over 19,000 square feet of jungles, beaches, mountains and oceans. Its two-hour itinerary sends you up to Road to Tokyo on the second floor first, then down to Road to Berlin, about twenty minutes each. From Road to Berlin you walk straight into Liberation Pavilion, which covers the Holocaust, Anne Frank and the years after 1945. One gallery is dark for now: the museum lists The D-Day Invasion of Normandy, in the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion, as closed for renovations and scheduled to reopen in 2027.
Six Warbirds and a Submarine Patrol
The same itinerary ends on the top floor of US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, home to six restored aircraft: a B-25 Mitchell, a B-17 Flying Fortress, a TBM Avenger, an F4U Corsair, an SBD Dauntless and a P-51 Mustang. The Avenger is the type George H.W. Bush flew as the Navy's youngest pilot at the time. The pavilion also runs Final Mission: USS Tang, a 15-minute patrol for 27 visitors at a time. Each visitor gets a watch bill for a specific crew member and learns at the end whether that sailor was lost or among the few who survived into Japanese captivity. The listing names Final Mission as a paid extra, while the museum's price page and FAQ both count it in general admission, and this booking is a general admission ticket. Patrols run daily from 11:15 AM to 4:15 PM.
The Films, the Food and the Garage Cost Extra
Beyond All Boundaries, the museum's 48-minute 4D film narrated by Tom Hanks, starts on the hour from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and the museum asks you to arrive 10 to 15 minutes early. The half-hour Freedom Theater shows twice an hour. Neither film is part of this ticket. The listing prices its extras at seven dollars. The museum's own price list puts each film at nine dollars and both at twelve, and that is the figure to plan on. Beyond All Boundaries and Final Mission both use loud noise, flashing light, fog or smoke and sudden seat or floor movement, and the museum advises discretion for younger visitors. Food is extra too: The American Sector serves lunch and the Jeri Nims Soda Shop does breakfast and sandwiches. The museum garage at 1024 Magazine Street charges fifteen dollars for one to three hours and twenty for three to seven, and it cannot take vehicles taller than 6 feet 8 inches.
Plan for More Than Three Hours
The listing estimates two to three hours, and the museum publishes itineraries that run from two hours to two days. Recent visitors report anywhere from three to six hours, and several wrote that a full day was not enough. Once you have checked in, you can leave and come back the same day until 5:00 PM, and a Second-Day Pass bought within seven days costs fifteen dollars. Everyone passes through a metal detector and bag search. Small backpacks can come in, and small lockers hold the rest. The galleries are kept cool for the artifacts, and the museum says many visitors need a sweater. Elevators cover every set of stairs and manual wheelchairs are free on a first-come basis. Benches are limited across the campus, and two visitors in 2026 mentioned uneven floors and dim lighting in some rooms.
📍 The museum sits at 945 Magazine Street in the Warehouse District, and cars can drop off at the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion entrance on Andrew Higgins Boulevard, which has a ramp. It opens daily from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and closes on Mardi Gras Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Fall, spring and the week between Christmas and New Year are its busiest stretches. In the galleries only bottled water with a secure lid is allowed, and photos are fine without flash. This booking refunds in full when cancelled at least 24 hours ahead. End the visit on the top floor of the Boeing Center, where the Liberty Bridge lets you out among the six restored warbirds.